Re: An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

[perlmoth]

I wrote the following code to implement the OCCULT membership system as outlined in chapter 6:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use diagnostics;

$|++;

my $total = 20;
my @members = map int rand 10, (1 .. $total);
my @pointers = (" ") x $total;
my ($teacher, $pupil);

print "@members\n";

for (1 .. 50) {
  do {
    $teacher = int rand $total;
    $pupil = int rand $total;
  } while $teacher == $pupil;
  $pointers[ $pupil ] = "V";
  $pointers[ $teacher ] = ".";
  $members[ $pupil ] = ($members[$teacher] * $members[$pupil]) % 10;
  print "@pointers\n@members\n";
  $pointers[ $pupil ] = " ";
  $pointers[ $teacher ] = " ";
}